Tuesday, January 30, 2018

A Mythic Medusa, to Get Your Party Stoned

This post contains (hopefully only) minor spoilers for Way of the Wicked, so if you're playing that game, maybe save this until after Book 3 :)

So a group of PCs that include a half-succubus and a now father-of-a-devil (long story) are going to war against some angels. To that end, they are building an army and gathering allies. The first potential ally was a medusa, cloistered away in a now destroyed temple of a long forgotten god. Driven mad by isolation and grief, the party went to confront her and hopefully ease her suffering - one way or the other. This is the creature they encountered:

Izevel can spend a standard action to apply her snake poison to her sword or to two arrows, and normally poisons her weapons in advance.

Slithering Swarm (Su)

As a full-round action, Izevel can summon 1d3+1 venomous snake swarms. The summoned snakes are immune to the medusa’s gaze attack and remain for 8 rounds before disappearing. This otherwise function like summon monster.

Smite Good (Su)

Once per day, as a swift action, Izevel can smite good as the smite evil ability of a 10th level paladin, except affecting a good target. The smite persists until target is dead or Izevel rests.

Stoneskin (Sp)

Izevel has learned how to turn her gaze inward. She can spend a mythic point to cast stoneskin on herself.

Unpetrify (Su)

A Izevel can expend one use of mythic power to return a petrified creature to life (as if using stone to flesh) for 1 minute. The creature is under her control (as if using dominate monster) and reverts to a statue at the end of this time. If she expends three uses of mythic power, the creature remains unpetrified for 24 hours instead of 1 minute.

This is similar to the default mythic medusa by Paizo, but with the stats shifted around a little, and with the half-fiend template to mirror what is in the module book. Luckily for the party, after a blunder with an overly cocky PC trying to seduce her, the half-succubus got smart and used charm monster and a little Diplomacy to get her on their side.